Occurrence of protein structure elements in conserved sequence regions

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sitbon, Einat ^a   Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; EVOLUTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33846529018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-7-3     Document Type: Article

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